[...]smology. ="trms">cosmology is very much alive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- ='lgc'>[="trms">animals fitting in the visual ="trms">rhetoric of web-based digital media is itself to be investigated... ="trms">social ="trms">relations, ="trms">social ="trms">animal, contemporary ="trms">cosmology='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the minimum ="trms">relationship with feral cats, and rats, and pigeons (and their ="trms">material environment.) and ambiguity towards them. evoking ="trms">responses of ="trms">affection, disgust, fear, and in="trms">difference.
="prgrph">-="trms">relationships between people, ="trms">animals and place='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[a place as complex as ="nms">Tehran's ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban environment with its politics, televised operations, its ‘="trms">wilderness,’ and ="trms">technologically mediated ="trms">stories and ="trms">rumors that populate its landscape.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are we having a ="trms">Historical change='qstn'>? in ="trms">epistemic principles ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is inside and what is outside ='lgc'>[keep in mind the ="trms">historical moment in ="nms">iran's political isolation. is this reflecting the ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of feral ="trms">animals of everyday life='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-my family was able to talk ="trms">differently and find other expressions about violence in the landscape of ="nms">tehran by applying the ="trms">animal ="trms">story (to the head and heart.) ='lgc'>[this is also Kelile o Demneh.='lgc'>] the video was a heart-breaker. it had a healing moment, and their resistance to its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginality as a tale of friendship is meaningful, the violence is solid and a-="trms">priori to companionship, and it supported the ="trms">story of kinship instead of friendship. This ="trms">story also promoted the ="ppl">Descartes’ ="trms">beast-machine hypothesis, that the ="trms">wild-being is devoid of intentions and is like a timepiece with regular motions, that the ="trms">animal is object and not subject, ="trms">beast-machine.
="prgrph">-my mother's ="trms">relationship to the lions eating their offspring, octopus eating their mate, or cats licking their genitals and dogs filth scavenging='lgc'>--polluters of domestic space, cockroaches “belonging” to an stratum below civilized life, the “out of place” and abject owl, ="trms">species sexual dis="trms">positions and ="trms">different coupling, sug="trms">gest difficulty in an ="trms">anthropocentric expectation of alterity. ="trms">animals ="trms">simultaneously despised and admired ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- ='thdf'>the idea of eating your (so-called) “="trms">loved-one” (not a suitable object for ="trms">affection) refutes cross-="trms">species identification ="trms">according to ="trms">anthropocentric standards. ='lgc'>[windows of opportunity for cross-="trms">species bonding, domestic-wanna-be-feral ="trms">story, myth of mental intention and ="trms">animal flesh, irreducible heterogeneous ="trms">ontologies and involvement of human-="trms">animal in multiple ="trms">agencies, normal ="trms">stories of becoming human, ='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-which ="trms">animals are regarded as transgressive and ambiguous in ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? and which aren't='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-resisting any openness to ='thdf'>the idea of feral ="trms">animal that was expressed in my family, a meaningful discomfort, actually entails the fear of finding that we are not so ="trms">different from ="trms">animals, within the violent landscape of contemporary ="nms">tehran.
="prgrph">-dust. fixation on clearing the dust out

this is one pattern of exchange.

(another ="trms">interference='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*In Pinocchio we have the excellent cooperation between the cat and the fox, who are forming a cunning and successful participatory alliance to trick Pinocchio='lgc'>: the hybrid-robot who doesn't understand his own potentialities and wants to be so-called human, the ="trms">animal-betrayer. the fact that he can be tricked by the cat/fox is what making him human.
="lsts lst1">•and Geppetto, oh my god, (he is Yunnos/Jonah='qstn'>?) working on a project inside the fish, colloquial activity and asceticism registered with the fish ="trms">interiority. Geppetto-pop is refound or saved='qstn'>? by the non-truth seeking robot! ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> breaking his self-sur="trms">veillance as a characterization of pictorial objectivism, a form of moral self-control of ="trms">natural-philosophical style.
="lsts lst1">•i rather go with the ="trms">animal style, the con of Gorb-e nar-e ='and'>& Rubah-e makar گربه نره و روباه مکار they are opaque and transparent at the same time
="lsts lst1">•the signifying ="trms">animal, machine, and human in Pinocchio ="trms">story is ridiculous!
="lsts lst1">•towards ="trms">responding to “opacity” (opacity is complicated philosophical ethical issue regarding ="trms">animality and humanity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> refraction. with opacity what is at stake is our “="trms">material understanding of our connection with other ="trms">animals” (="ppl">="ppl">Marks, touch 39)


(we are talking about) ="trms">Fables of ="trms">Animal Subjectivity ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>]

="trms">apparatuses of subject formation

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THE prey and THE visible (both are ="trms">categories of forest life survival ="trms">stories. also have high stakes in ="nms">iranian culture, thought, and philosophy)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is important for a living self='qstn'>?

(bab-e) hekayat-e dusti-e kabutar o zagh o mush o bakhe o aahu o ...
بابِ / حکایت دوستی کبوتر و زاغ و موش و باخه و آهو و ...
='lgc'>[everyone='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[the ="trms">story of the friendship of these ="trms">animals; the quality, properties, and pitfalls of ="trms">relation='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•what is (re)activating the ='strcls'>*="trms">imaginary friend='strcls'>*='qstn'>? (is it really fully on shut-down='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> ="trms">trap to abstract thought='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> this ‘abstract thought’ is d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous for “sadness” to get lost in it, but it is amazing for “joy”
="lsts lst1">•how much we need sadness='qstn'>?

why jackal is so persistent and play-full (full of “plays”) in Kelile o Demne's ="trms">bestiary='qstn'>?


="trms">bird people
,
fox people

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arbab-e اربابِ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dar bab-e در بابِ
(let's do this conversion, we are not “arbab”/master of the ="trms">story nor ethics or anything else, we like to create “dar bab-e”='lgc'>: doors/openings into ="trms">different possible path ways)
(it is about teller not fully understanding the ="trms">story)



‘shekar’ ='lgc'>[شکار prey='lgc'>] and ‘ashkar’ ='lgc'>[آشکار visible='lgc'>], two entities in play, like the game of stone-paper-scissors, a link in our shared ="trms">literature that relates the perceptible to the subject of hunt. in a discourse of friendship and enmity, the visible anticipating itself as target for violence, becomes meaningful when we approach it in a game-theoretic-="trms">semiotic linkage, relating and tying together issues of voyeurism, sur="trms">veillance, violence, media and mediation, and predation in ="trms">poetic itineraries.

='lgc'>[business='lgc'>] friendliness, تعارف ="nms">Tarof and ="trms">greetings ='lgc'>[and its artificial inseminations='lgc'>] (sometimes) is it covering up or masking really predatory behaviors(='qstn'>?)


and in Kelile o Demne,

کلیله و دمنه Kelile o Demne (i am becoming more convinced that) is (all) about the ="trms">phenomenology of ='strcls'>*friendship and the ='strcls'>*contract


="ppl">Sa'di is the theoretician of friendship (“mojaverat” مجاورت) and Kelileo Demne is the theoretician of “sherarat” (شرارت villainy, felony) saying that the closeness of ="trms">different subjects is catastrophic ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proper ="trms">differences between kinds and subjects.='lgc'>] ="ppl">Sa'di is ="trms">writing golestan گلستان and bustan بوستان at the time of the Mongols threat='lgc'>='lgc'>---it is the news of the Mongols coming and we know about the velocities of news can penetrate within the ="trms">thick walls of any city. ="ppl">Sa'di is theorizing proximity based on “mohabat” (محبت ="trms">love, Liebe and kindness), he assembles a setting of ‘garden’ for the coming of Mongols army. Kelileo Demne's project is pessimist ="trms">pragmatism, mobilizing ethics in a milieu of violence and power.



='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> the ="trms">story of ="trms">birds en="trms">trapped escape away with the cage
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> the ="trms">story of cat and mouse project
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> bat and owl
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> scorpion and..


="ppl">Shakespearean villain ='lgc'><== ="trms">nature ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i prefer Ursula, evil corporally located='lgc'>]
="trms">modern villain ='lgc'><== power struggle


کلیله و دمنه Kelile Demne is full of disastrous laws of encounter and encounters of law
a ="trms">sort of a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">presence (imposing and projecting to and with ="trms">animals) that regulates the possibility of a pedagogical encounter
="lsts lst1">•no mediated forms of ="trms">presence and so on
="lsts lst1">•nobody breaking the ="trms">semiotic rules
="lsts lst1">•what subject-="trms">supposed-to-know
="lsts lst1">•what blocks cordial dis="trms">position and ="trms">animal amity='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what genital lickings are welcomed or unwelcomed and discouraged or abandoned='qstn'>? and so on


to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read Kelile Demne not as something that works as legitimator

="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">greeting


to form (an) intention


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> all that ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism performs and withholds on and with ="trms">animality

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Rickels='lgc'>]
(my) ="trms">animal-findings and fairy-tale as="trms">sociations

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> if dogs ="trms">communicate through their trainability cats redirect lines of ="trms">communication through play. the dog waits and watches, the cat looks and looks, which when is your turn to be looked at, can be therapeutic or unnerving.

meeting the cat half-way

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital='lgc'>]

="large lg5" stl="font-size:123%"> the ="trms">greeting ‘hello’, the initiatory and inaugural moment of our encounter

the gift sab[...]